Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.